Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-19

| luck last Saturday night. AT least so
he considered himself when told he
might have u "day out'' on Sunday.
Thinking where he should go to
squander his one holiday, Anaheim
came into his head as pleasant place
to spend a day. Getting his Saturday
nights work well up, ard enlisting
the interest of collaborateur to do
the rest, away he. HE'D ON the late
train of Saturday. He found a solid
train Of fourcoaches full OF people all
agog for the south end of the county.
AT ANAHEM.
Transferring himself from the train
to the street car, the newspaper pleas
ure seeker found about twenty-five
other tourists, commercial and other
vie, all bound with him for the
Planters hotel to interview mine
host Mason and his cook, especial y
the cook. Next morning, refreshed
ami ready for the fray, the pencil
pusher awoke, betimes he did, and
having performed his ablutions, ex-
ternal and internal--the latter If not in
a cask of malmse, yet outside Of
som tning pleasant-he stepped at
last into the open air.
A GLORIOUS MORNING.
The warm glow of 60 den sunshine
filed tho sky and air, and bathed the
land as genial as the loveliest day in
June. The birds were all making the
space sonorous with glad So gs. The
breezes Of the zephyr's gentlest touen
set the leaves of the orange groves
just atremble, and the golden spheres
like the tabled app es OF the Hesper-
ides, glistened like gold amid the
rich waxy sheen Of the foliage.
RICH ANAHErM.
Far southwark spread the broad,
rich plain embracing Vineyards. or
ange groves, rich pastures, orchards
the most fertile and varied in its
resources in the world. Some fifteen
miles away the Pacific lay pulsating
and cleaning in the golden sunlight,
from his broad breast come these
gentle winds luaded to repletion wi h
life-giving ozone, pure, invigorating,
health-restoriHg, youth-givlng, as
would hav been the springs OF eter-
nal youth, had Ponce de Leon
been able to find them.
THE EVERLASTING HILLS.
Al! around the north side of the
valley the great mountains rose to
grand heights, and ON their world-old
hrows they lifted to the skies their
SHOWS of countless years. The sun
lit up their ridges with such glorious
l. ba ~ alton ylin,
tues on the white heights OF Para
disc. The shadows slept in the val
eys as peacefully as Bunyon's pill
grim saw them on the "Delectable
mountains'' in his progress to Heaven.
Indeed a more beautiful prospect
never stretched before the eyes
of man han the landscape which
Law all around the ricn old "mother
colony on the day in question. No
spot even in this semi tropic paradise
can boast of any more fascinating pic
ture than was there presented. The
rains had started the grasses. The
orange groves we're washed Gle m OF
dust, the roads were hard and clean,
the temperature was of that abso-
lutely perfect degree witch makes
life seem worth living for. Lowell
asks:
"And what so perfect as day, in
June"
The answer is last Sunday at Ana
helm was as perfect as any day t"at
ever rose out of the night in the sleafy
month of June"
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
Things are stirring at Anaheim. The
new railroad is graded through
the town, across the wash, through
Fullerton, west through Orangethorpe
to the Coyote House, and will soon be
up on the mesa shooting straight for
the springs. The Hotel Del Campo
contract is let to the Albrecht Bros,
an Anaheim firm, and it will be fin
shed in ninety days. Then Anaheim
will have thee fine hotels. The Sis
ters are waiting anxiously for deed
from the Dreyfus estate to their
lots in order that they may
| proceed with the building OF
their academy. The Town Trustees
arc about to lay water pipes along
cypress street for a distance of several
thousand feet. The water company
| is pushing things on their big reser-
| voir.
A company of railroad contractors
with large force of men from Colo
RADIO is expected every day to go on
with grading the railroad from Ana
helm to Orange. This company will
construct the big bridge over the Santa
Ana river. Progress is reported on
the proposed new road from Ana
helm to the landing. Capitalists
| in San Francisco and Los An
geles have had their interest enlisted
in the project. 1t is sure to 60
through at an early day. Its advan-
tages to Anahelm will be very great.
The l,el Campo people are laying
cement sidewalks along their tract,
Center street is being graded, new
houses are seen going up all around
the town, and in the country up by
North Anaheim and Placentia as
we'll. The new. hotel at Full
erton is nearly finished, and
will soon be open to guests. New.
corners from the Western States are
coming in rapidly and settling in the
towns of Anaheim, in Fullerton, al
Placentia and all around the country,
ANAHEIM TO THE FRONT.
The attractions of Anaheim and its
vicinity are becoming we'll known
The pure climate. excellent soil, per-
feet drainage, absence of dust, abund-
ance of water and such elements
of the situation are getting to be
we'll understood. Should people rec.
ognize the fact that property is held
here at less than fifty per cent. of the
prices held in other places, they see
that as water seeks its level, the in
trinsic value OF lands at Anaheim
will push prices up to the ranges Of
tthe other most eclectic spots in Los
Angeles County, and that
there will be big day
of reckoning with large balance In
favor of those who buy now.
| WaII fba maui bOtala of Auahain1